Google Launches Cloud Natural Language API

Google released their beta Cloud Natural Language API on July 20, joining the movement to take advancements in natural language processing (NLP) out of the small world of cutting-edge research and into the hands of everyday data scientists and software engineers. Google’s NLP API lets users take advantage of three core NLP features: Sentiment Analysis – Interpretation of the tone of language, for example, positive or negative. Entity Recognition – Recognition of different entities like people or organizations within language Syntax Analysis – Recognition of parts of speech within language, for example, sentence x has 3 nouns. These tools utilize Google’s deep learning machine learning algorithms to distinguish its API from other home grown data science efforts. NLP software, programs built to understand human speech or text, has been making…